Lure Quotes - Page 8

• You have to get a great headline to attract attention in your blog - it's about the lure - not the rod.

  Michael Hyatt

  Attention, Social Media, Headlines

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• Gold has an almost atavistic lure. People feel it has a panacea effect.

  Howard Blum

  People, Gold, Panacea

  "The Lure of Gold: PW Talks with Howard Blum". Interview with Amy Meng, www.publishersweekly.com. February 21, 2011.

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• For those working menial jobs or putting in 100-hour weeks for corporations, the lure of starting your own business can seem like a great way to get more flexibility, upside, and ownership.

  Kathryn Minshew

  Jobs, Corporations, Way

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• I don't think there are beautiful women out there trying to lure men into any kind of conspiracy. I think people are out there just trying to meet someone new and interesting and live in the real world.

  Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

  Beautiful, Real, Men

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• The photographic enthusiast likes to lure us into a darkened room in order to display his slides on a silver screen. Aided by the adaptability of the eye and by the borrowed light from the intense projector bulb, he can achieve those relationships in brightness that will make us dutifully admire the wonderful autumn tints he photographed on his latest trip. As soon as we look at a print of these photographs by day, the light seems to go out of them. It is one of the miracles of art that the same does not happen there.

  Ernst Gombrich

  Art, Eye, Autumn

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• There's no doubt about it, show business lures the people who didn't get enough love, attention, or approval early in life and have grown up to become bottomless, gaping vessels of terrifying, abject need. Please laugh.

  Dennis Miller

  People, Laughing, Doubt

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• Peacock bass like to hide at ambush points, away from the strong canal currents. If you fish early and know those peacock hangouts, you will have little or no trouble catching peacocks on lures and live bait.

  Mark Hall

  Strong, Bait, Bass

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• Unfortunately, marketing textbooks is like marketing fishing lures: the point is to catch fishermen, not fish. Thus many adopted textbooks are flashy to catch the eye of adoption committees but dull when read by students.

  James W. Loewen

  Eye, Fishing, Adoption

  James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.347, The New Press

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• True majorities, in a TV-dominated and anti-intellectual age, may need sound bites and flashing lights and I am not against supplying such lures if they draw children into even a transient concern with science. But every classroom has one [Oliver] Sacks , one [Eric] Korn, or one [Jonathan] Miller , usually a lonely child with a passionate curiosity about nature, and a zeal that overcomes pressures for conformity. Do not the one in fifty deserve their institutions as well magic places, like cabinet museums, that can spark the rare flames of genius?

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Lonely, Children, Museums

  Stephen Jay Gould (1995). “Dinosaur in a haystack: reflections in natural history”, Harmony

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• It's not hard to understand why an accomplished director like Gus Van Sant (whose most recent success, Good Will Hunting, gave him mainstream clout) would be interested in making this film. The lure of an exact remake presents a tremendous challenge. Unfortunately, it was undoubtedly a lot more stimulating for Van Sant and his crew to make Psycho than it is for an audience to watch it. Curiosity is going to be one of the primary reasons why people pay money to see this movie; boredom will be the predominant result.

  James Berardinelli

  Hunting, People, Boredom

  "Psycho (United States, 1998)". A movie review, www.reelviews.net. 1998.

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• The difference between hunting and fishing is that hunters seek their prey while fishermen try to become prey; they do their best to make their lures look attractive and vulnerable so that fish will attack them.

  Walter D. Wetherell

  Hunting, Sea, Fishing

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• Fishing is more than fish; it is the vitalizing lure to outdoor life.

  Herbert Hoover

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Herbert Hoover (1963). “Fishing for Fun - and to Wash Your Soul”

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• Accursed, blasted, heartless things [books]! Full of empty promises, full of false lures, always making you hungry, never satisfying you, never!

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, Heartless, Promise

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.703, Scholastic Inc.

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• What a man pays for bread and butter is worth its market value, and no more. What he pays for love's sake is gold indeed, which has a lure for angels' eyes, and rings well upon God's touchstone.

  James Russell Lowell

  Love, Eye, Angel

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.55

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• Well, then--our course is chosen--spread the sail--
  Heave oft the lead, and mark the soundings well--
  Look to the helm, good master--many a shoal
  Marks this stern coast, and rocks, where sits the Siren
  Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.

  Walter Scott

  Ambition, Men, Rocks

  Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott (1841). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart”, p.686

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• [Our family is] a wonderfully messy arrangement, in which relationships overlap, underlie, support, and oppose one another. It didn't always come together easily nor does it always stay together easily. It's known very good times and very bad ones. It has held together, often out of shared memories and hopes, sometimes out of the lure of my sisters' cooking, and sometimes out of sheer stubbornness. And like the world itself, our family is renewed by each baby.

  Marge M. Kennedy

  Baby, Memories, Support

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• In my art and life, I really strive to reverse the old adage that what you see is what you get. If I can be Coyote and practice my sneak-up, I can engage the viewers from a distance with one image and lure them in for exposure to another layer, which changes the initial view into quite a different reality. After all, that is what ethnic culture is all about - or even an ongoing relationship. What you see on the surface is never the same again one you begin to plumb the depths.

  Jaune Quick–to–See Smith

  Art, Distance, Reality

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• As you may know from my life story, my cousin who was my soul mate went to a public school. And he died of AIDS. Would I and my brother have been able to resist the lure of drugs in the surrounding schools? Who knows.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Cousin, Brother, School

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty. That the reasons flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the aesthetic appeal of flying.

  Amelia Earhart

  Flying, Aviation, Flight

  Amelia Earhart (1937). “Last flight”

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• Capitalism lures us onward like the mechanical hare before the greyhounds,
  insisting that the economy is infinite and sharing therefore irrelevant. Just enough greyhounds catch a
  real hare now and then to keep the others running till they drop. In the past it was only the poor who
  lost this game; now it is the planet.

  Ronald Wright

  Running, Real, Past

  Ronald Wright (2010). “A Short History Of Progress”, p.124, Canongate Books

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• It is good that man should accept at face value the cheats of sense and snares of flesh, and through the fogs of sentiency pursue the lures and lies of passion.

  Jack London

  Lying, Passion, Men

  Jack London (2016). “Jack London Six Pack”, p.292, Lulu.com

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• Men are tending to materialism. Houses, lands, and worldly goods attract their attention, and as a mirage lure them on to death. Christianity, on the other hand leads only the natural body to death, and for the spirit, it points out a house not built with hands, eternal in the heavens... Let me urge you to follow Him, not as the Nazarene, the Man of Galilee, the carpenter's son, but as the ever living spiritual person, full of love and compassion, who will stand by you in life and death and eternity.

  James A. Garfield

  Spiritual, Son, Men

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• The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was romantic. The carefulness of lifting pots and objects from the soil filled me with a longing to be an archaeologist myself.

  Agatha Christie

  Past, Gold, Daggers

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• It's always the script that's going to lure me. And I don't really care about the part.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Care, Scripts

  "‘Chappie’ Interviews: Weaver and Copley On Gangstas, Ghostbusters & More". Interview with Kofi Outlaw, screenrant.com. March 7, 2015.

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• That whole thing of replicating what others do is a siren call. The sirens lure you to the rocks of unoriginality.

  Stewart Copeland

  Rocks, Sirens, Whole

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